Israel retaliates against Iran: Our capabilities are inconceivable!
PERMATA POSTS KIND, TEL AVIV - Iran has bluffed by threatening to blow up Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor with a ballistic missile strike. Now it's the Zionist regime's turn to swear to counter the Tehran threat with claims of unimaginable capabilities.
The claim was made by Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Friday, which was broadcast on Channel 12
He said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was ready to bring in a range of capabilities to protect itself from what he described as Iranian threats.
"Israel has the capability, some of which the world, and even some experts on the ground, can't even imagine," Lapid said.
"And Israel will protect itself from Iranian threats," he said again, quoted by Sputniknews, Saturday (1/1/2022).
When asked about Tel Aviv's ability to attack Iran's uranium enrichment facilities and what it described as weapons sites, Lapid stated that Tel Aviv is capable and ready to carry out such attacks.
Lapid also said that the Israeli attack on Tehran could have taken place without prior correspondence with the United States (US).
"Israel will do whatever it needs to do to protect its security. And we don't need anyone's permission for that," Lapid told Channel 12. "That's what happened from the first day we founded this country."
He also reiterated that Israel's allies had been shown information which he claimed proved Iran was lying in relation to its recent nuclear activities.
Despite strong opposition from the Israeli government, which opposed the original 2015 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA), Tel Aviv will support a "good deal". The Zionist regime considers the 2015 JCPOA a wrong deal.
Lapid has previously stated that he would prefer the US and other JCPOA signatories to leave new talks than reach a deal that lacks what he calls "real oversight" of Iran's nuclear program.
In May 2018, then-US President Donald Trump unilaterally pulled the US out of the 2015 JCPOA agreement and reimposed sanctions crippling Iran's economy.
Tehran then responded by abandoning its commitments to the 2015 JCPOA agreement.
After Joe Biden was elected US president to replace Donald Trump, negotiations to revisit the 2015 JCPOA agreement resumed in April but stalled in June, when Ebrahim Raisi was elected Iran's new president.
Recently, talks have hit a stalemate after American officials concluded that Iran was "not serious" about the ongoing talks in Vienna.
Despite further delays, the eighth round of the 2015 JCPOA negotiations resumed Monday. The US communicated earlier this week that progress had been made in defining what it claimed were the main issues preventing Tehran from returning to the pact.
According to Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani, almost all delegates have agreed on the need to lift sanctions against Tehran.